In a predawn disaster on Thursday that revived the horrors of the Bhopal gas tragedy 36 years ago, at least 11 people died and hundreds fell sick — many of them collapsing on roads and pavements — as they tried to escape toxic styrene vapours leaking from a chemical plant owned by South Korean company LG in the densely populated Gopalapatnam area of Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam.
In a predawn disaster on Thursday that revived the horrors of the Bhopal gas tragedy 36 years ago, at least 11 people died and hundreds fell sick — many of them collapsing on roads and pavements — as they tried to escape toxic styrene vapours leaking from a chemical plant owned by South Korean company LG in the densely populated Gopalapatnam area of Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam.